It’s a busy weekend in the Boston area in terms of tech camps, but I’m planning on making the circuit – hopefully, you’ll be able to get to at least one of these too. The organizers behind New England Code Camp 16 (Patrick Hynds, Bob Goodearl, and Chris Pels) have been taking care of the…

I tend to be a bit Boston-centric given my physical location and where the population center of the Northeast District lies, but I’m happy to say that upstate New York is on a tear lately in terms of community and Microsoft-led tech events (in addition, of course, to the regular cadence of User Group activities). …

Ok, it’s been a really, really long time since my last substantive Windows Azure post, but we’re back! Back where, you say? Well I’ve got one or two posts left to round out my Azure Photo Mosaics series. The six previous posts actually covered the guts of the implementation, from the point of submitting an…

Next Wednesday, Oct. 26th, MS Dev WNY (the rebranded presence of the Western New York .NET User’s Group) ushers back in a monthly get-together of Microsoft developers of all kinds – .NET, Windows Phone, Windows Azure, and who knows what’s to come! At the helm and the first speaker is Rich Nalezynski, who will be…

On October 12-13, at the Marriott in Kendall Square (Cambridge MA) – said to be one of the most innovative patches of real estate in the world – some 250+ experienced (and first-time) mobile developers convened for a two-day launch event for Windows Phone 7.5 (code-named “Mango”). On the first day, Microsoft developer evangelists and…

This past Saturday, over 75 area technologists gathered at the Microsoft Office in Waltham for the 2nd New England Business Intelligence Code Camp. Sponsored by the Boston Business Intelligence User Group, under the leadership of Slava Kokaev, the event drew attendees from the local area as well as from upstate New York, Rhode Island, and…

It’s that time again, New England Code Camp will be held on October 29th, 2011 at the Microsoft Office on Jones Road in Waltham. This is the sixteenth (or 10th in hex) incarnation of the semi-annual event, which of course is free to attend. Call for speakers is open now – as is registration –…